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young are very common as far north as Cape Cod. The species 

 is seldom used for food. The name, shark's pilot, is in use at 

 •Vomers Point N. J. 



Two individuals of the banded pilot were taken in Gravesend 

 bay in September 1897. The species will live in captivity only 

 w^hen it has ample room. It feeds on small killifish, which it 

 takes with a rush much like that of the brook trout. 



208 Seriola lalandi Cuv. & Val. (?) 

 Amber Fish 



■Seriola lalandi Cuviee & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. IX, 208, 1833, 

 Brazil; Gunthee, Oat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II, 463, I860; Goode & Bean, 

 Bull. U. S. F. C. I, 43, 1881; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 271, 1882; Jordan, Pfoc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 122, 123, 1884; Jordan & 

 EvERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 903, 1896, pi. CXL, fig. 382, 1900; 

 Bean, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 160, 1897; Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 

 XVII, 97, 1898. 



■Seriola gigas Poey, Memorias, II, 227, 1860, Cuba. 



Zoniclitliys gigas Poey, Syn. Pise. Cubens, 371, 1868. 



Body oblong, moderately elongate, robust, its greatest hight 

 contained four and one fourth times in the total length without 

 caudal, its width seven times; the least depth of the caudal 

 peduncle equals one seventh of the length of head; head long, 

 conical, its length two sevenths of total length without caudal; 

 snout long and somewhat pointed, its length two and one fifth 

 times diameter of eye and one third of length of head; the jaws 

 are equal in front; the maxilla reaches to below middle of pupil, 

 and the length of the upper jaw is contained two and two 

 sevenths times in length of head; the mandible is slightly more 

 than one half as long as the head; the expanded end of maxilla 

 exceeds the diameter of the eye, which is contained six and 

 two fifths times in length of head; gill rakers 4+10, the longest 

 nearly as long as the eye, very thin, much wider at base, and 

 tapering gradually to a small, rounded point, very finely toothed 

 on inner margin; teeth in broad, villiform bands in both jaws, 

 an arrow-shaped patch with long, slender backward process on 

 vomer, similar bands on palate and pharjmx. The distance from 

 snout to vertical from origin of spinous dorsal is nearly three 

 times the length of base of the fin; the third and longest spine 



